Portable device for loading box-magazines from cartons.



T. C. JOHNSON & F. F. BURTON. PORTABLE DEVICE FOR LOADING BOX MAGAZINES FROM CARTONS.

Patefited Feb. 18, 1919.

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T. 0. JOHNSON & F. F. BURTON. PORTABLE oEvlce FOR LOADING BOX MAGAZINES FROM CARTONS.

APPLICATION HLED JAN.4.19\8.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

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THOMAS C. JOHNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, AND FRANK F. BURTON, OF EAST HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

PORTABLE DEVICE FOR LOADING BOX-MAGAZINES FROM CARTONS.

Application filed January 4, 1918. Serial No. 210,328.

To all whom it may concern: 7.

BeitknbWn that we, THOMAS C. JOHN- soN and FRANK F. BURTON, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at New Haven and East Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Conecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Devices for Loading Box-Magazines from Cartons; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, 1n 7 Figure 1 a view in front elevation of our improved portable device for loading boxmagazines from paper cartons preparatory to their introduction into machine guns or shoulder arms.

Fig. 2 a view thereofin side elevation.

Fig. 3 a view of the device in vertical central section with the central cartridge-guide-v way flange and the inner wall of the left. hand box-magazine broken away, and with,

used for simultaneously loading'aplurality of magazines.

In carrying out our shown, we employ a plural loading-member having two parallel loading-leaves 7 and 8, a handle 9 extending laterally outward from the upper portion of the right hand leafs, and a substantially circular head 10 formed with a central bore 11. By preference, the

several parts of the said loading-member.

will be made integral,though this is not necessary. The said member is mounted through the bore 11 in its head 10, upon the shouldered upper end of a plunger 12 ha ing a stud 13 to which the said head is fastened by a pin 14. This part we have elected to call a plural loading-member on account of its adaptation to load more than one box-magazine at a time. The said plunger is located in the chamber 15 ofan upright frame 16 attached at its lower end to a base 17, and closed at its upper end by a cap 18 secured in place Patented Feb. 18, 1919. a

invention, as herein by screws 19, only one of which is shown.

, 8 laterally project through vertical slots 20 a column f artridg s h wn ju t io t 21 formed in the front of the frame, as

its introduction into such magazine.

Fig. 4 a corresponding view with the column of cartridges shown as charged into the magazine.

upper and lower magazine-supports shown} in vertical section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2.! Fig. 6 a view of the device in transverse; section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1. i Fig. 7 a detached horizontal sectional view, the frame showing the two cartridgeguideways formed by the three cartridgeguideway flanges.

Fig. 8 a detached plan view loading-member and plunger.

Fig. 9 a detached view in side elevation of the upper magazine-support.

Fig. 10 a detached view in side elevation of a typical box-magazine.

Our invention relates to a portable device for loading box-magazines directly from cartons preparatory to their introduction into machine guns or shoulder arms, as the case may be, the object being to, produce a simple, convenient. rapidly operable device of the plural of the character described, adapted to be "ijclearly shown in Fig. 5. {chambered as at 22 Fig. 5 a view in front elevation with theffii for the reception of the ,upper end of a helical plunger-spring '23 I e lower end of'which enters a stop-sleeve located in the lower end of the chamber of the frame. f the leaves 7 and 8 of the plural loadingmember travel up and down in the slots 20 and 21 in the frame, the front face of which is formed, as shown, with three integral par? allel, vertically arranged. cartridge-guidewayflanges 25, 26 and 27, of which the flanges 25 and 27 are located flange 26 is located between'the said slots,

The plunger is Under this construction,

outside of the outer walls of the slots 20 and 21, while the whereby two cartridge-guideways 28 and. 29,

arranged side byside, and separated only by the intermediate flange 26, are produced.

The inner faces of the right and left outer flanges 25 and 27 are formed with inwardly projecting retaining-ribs 30,

while the oppojsite faces of the intermediate flange 26 are formed with complementary retaining-ribs 31, as clearly shown in Fig. 6. These ribs enter the cannelures 32in the head ends of the body-portions of thecartridges 34 which single magazine when required. In such case, after the magazine has been positioned on the magazine supports, one of the two columns of cartridges in a: carton is introduced into the guideway" above the magazine; the other column of cartridges in the carton passing downward, outside the guideway, remains in place in the carton when the latter is withdrawn. After the column of cartridges in the .guideway has been forced into the magazine by the loading member, the remaining column of cartridges in the carton is introduced into the same guideway and the loading movement is repeated.

We claim:

1. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having a plurality of cartridge-guideways, of means for supporting and positioning a plurality of magazines in position to receive cartridges from the saidguideways.

2. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms,'the combination with a frame having a plurality of cartridge-guideways, of a magazine-support having a plurality of cartridge-receiving openings adapted and postioned to receive and direct the cartridges which are forced through the said cartridge-guideways into the magazines.

3. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having a plurality of cartridge-guideways, of a manually operable loading-member adapted to force the cartridges through the said guideways, and means for supporting and positioning a plurality of box-magazines in position to receive cartridges from the said guideways. 4. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridge-guideways, of a plural loading-member, and a magazine-support having cartridge-receiving openings and adapted to support and position two boxmagazines simultaneously in position to re ceive columns of cartridges from the respective openings.

5. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridge-guideways, of adjustable means for supporting box-magazines in position to receive cartridges from the said guideways.

6. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridge-guideways, of a plural loading-member, and means for supporting two box-magazines in position to receive cartridges from the said guideways, including a longitudinally adjustable magazine-support.

In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridgeguideways, of a plural loading-member, and means for supporting two box-magazines in position to receive cartridges from the said guideways, including a magazine-support having two in- :wardly inclined magazine seats.

including amagazine-support having two magazine-seats and an upstanding abutment separating the same.

9. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having two cartridge-guideways, of a plural loading-member, a box-magazine support formed with two cartridge-receiving openings respectively intersected by the discharging ends of the said guideways, anda positioning-flange or web for positioning the receiving ends of two box-magazines relative to the res ective cartridge-receiving openings. 10. n a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridge-gui-deways, of a longitudinally movable, non-pivotal, loading-member, and a box-magazine support having stop flanges for limiting the outward movement of the receiving ends of the magazines.

11. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridge-guideways, of a. loadingmember for co-action with the said guide Ways, and box-magazine supporting means, including a depending apron provided with a projection adapted to'co-act with corresponding notches in the magazines.

12. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having cartridge-guideways, of a plural loading-member, and means for supporting two box-magazines in inclined positions with respect to each other, whereby they may be readily grasped for removal by the insertion of the fingers between them.

13. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having two longitudinal cartridgeguideways located side by side, of a longitudinally movable loading-member adapted to enter the respective guideways, and means for supporting two box-magazines while the same are being charged with cartridges forced through the said guideways and into the said magazines by the said loadingmember.

14. In a device for loading box-magazines for firearms, the combination with a frame having a plurality of cartridge-guideways arranged side by side, of a movable loadingmember having leaves adapted to enter the respective guideways, a primary box-magazine support ofi'setting from the said frame and having cartridge-receiving openings in- Y "having :twoa cartrid' geflguidew eys ,m renged e' said guidewaye;

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In testimony whereof, We have signfld this 5: i

specification in the presence of twoeubsi'ibing-witnessesz 1 i v.; 1 :THQM'AS. JQHNSGNJ FRANK l fiv'eeents :eeehfby adcI'res sing the gemanissionerf refents Washington, AG. 1 

